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Thought for the day....
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   Reader Morgan sent me this.

     There was a Chemistry professor in a large college that had some
     exchange students in the class. One day while the class was in the
     lab the Prof noticed one young man (exchange student) who kept
     rubbing his back and stretching as if his back hurt.
     The professor asked the young man what was the matter. The student
     told him he had a bullet lodged in his back. He had been shot while
     fighting communists in his native country who were trying to
     overthrow his country's government and install a new communist
     government.
     In the midst of his story he looked at the professor and asked a
     strange question. He asked, ' Do you know how to catch wild pigs?'
     The professor thought it was a joke and asked for the punch line.
     The young man said this was no joke.' You catch wild pigs by
     finding a suitable place in the woods and putting corn on the
     ground. The pigs find it and begin to come everyday to eat the free
     corn. When they are used to coming every day, you put a fence down
     one side of the place where they are used to coming. When they get
     used to the fence, they begin to eat the corn again and you put up
     another side of the fence. They get used to that and start to eat
     again. You continue until you have all four sides of the fence up
     with a gate in the last side. The pigs, who are used to the free
     corn, start to come through the gate to eat, you slam the gate on
     them and catch the whole herd.
     Suddenly the wild pigs have lost their freedom. They run around and
     around inside the fence, but they are caught. Soon they go back to
     eating the free corn. They are so used to it that they have
     forgotten how To forage in the woods for themselves, so they accept
     their captivity.
     The young man then told the professor that is exactly what he sees
     happening to America. The government keeps pushing us toward
     Communism/Socialism and keeps spreading the free corn out in the
     form of programs such as supplemental income, tax credit for
     unearned income, tobacco subsidies, dairy subsidies, payments not
     to plant crops (CRP), welfare, medicine, drugs, free medical, etc.
     while we continually lose our freedoms - just a little at a time.

     One should always remember 'There is no such thing as a free Lunch!
     Also, a politician will never provide a service for you cheaper
     than you can do it yourself.
     Also, if you see that all of this wonderful government 'help' is a
     problem confronting the future of democracy in America, you might
     want to send this on to your friends. If you think the free ride is
     essential to your way of life then you will probably delete this
     email, but God help you when the gate slams shut!
     'A government big enough to give you everything you want, is big
     enough to take away everything you have.' ........ Thomas Jefferson

   Tags: [1]socialism [2]liberalism [3]communism [4]freedom

References

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